Fathom Information Design, known for client visualization-centric projects, introduced Rowboat. It’s a tool…
Software
Programs and online applications to help you make use of data.
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Rowboat for fast CSV exploration
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Huetone for accessible color systems
There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…
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Data GIF Maker lets you make animated GIFs with data
The Data GIF Maker is a fun tool from Google that lets you…
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Simple tool for proportional area charts
There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but…
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The Nature of Code, refreshed
Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding…
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easystats, an R package
The easystats R package in on my to-try list.
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BrailleR, a R package to improve access for blind users
From CRAN:
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Catalog of AI data tools
Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI…
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Find familiar places in new cities
If you’re traveling to a new city, it can be tricky to figure…
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NYT Flash-based visualizations work again
In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for…
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Psuedo-charts with Microsoft Image Creator
With each new AI-based tool that comes out, I begrudgingly kick the tires…
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Visual history of Yahoo Pipes
For Retool, Glenn Fleishman looks back to a time when data on the…
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Excel World Championship
The Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 wrapped a couple weeks ago, and the…
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Fonts for rendering lines and bars from data
Google Fonts now provides two open source fonts by Dmitry Ivanov that let…
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Turn a static SVG into an interactive one, with Flourish
It’s straightforward to share a static SVG online, but maybe you want tooltips…
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Python is coming to Excel
Excel is getting a bump in capabilities with Python integration. From Microsoft:
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Barbie and Oppenheimer themes for charts in R
Matthew Jané made a small R package called Theme Park, which is meant…
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Understanding the SVG path element, a visual guide
The SVG path element can be useful for drawing regular and irregular shapes.…
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Mosaic, a framework for scalable and linked visualization
From the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, Mosaic is a research project…
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Switching from Python to R
If you’re looking to switch or just want to expand your skills, this…